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v0.5.3
Your library follows you between screens
What you have watched, how far you got, your favourites and your watchlist can now stay in step across every device - with no Ventic account and no server of ours in the middle.
Sync on storage you already have
Under Settings → Account, paste the address of a folder on storage you already have (anything that speaks WebDAV: a hosted drive, a Nextcloud, a NAS, your own server) and every device reads and writes one small file in it.
- Two screens are merged, not one overwritten by the other. Removing something from a list removes it everywhere.
- Three switches for what travels: watch history, sources, preferences. Preferences is off - subtitles sized for a laptop are wrong across a room.
- Downloads, playlists and anything holding a password never leave the device.
- It runs on its own: at startup, every few minutes, when a film ends, and whenever you put the app away or come back to it.
Fixes
- Links from debrid sources play again. A resolved link was checked before playback with a request the webview wouldn't show us the answer to, so a good link was reported as "could not be reached" fifteen seconds later. Live channels and cast streams were on the same path.
- Casting starts the film instead of spinning. Picking a device now stops the network scan first - 253 probes were competing with the television pulling the film. Casting the same film to the same screen twice works now too.
- The pairing code is yours to choose - editable to a number you actually remember, or switched off entirely for your own front room. Still on by default.
- Subtitle fonts do what they say. Roboto, Verdana and Georgia all drew as the same fallback serif in the preview and in the Android player.
- Detail pages fit a phone. A film, an episode, a season and a person all opened with the poster stranded above a column of empty space.
- Text fields can be walked past with a remote without Android's keyboard covering the screen. OK opens the field and brings the keyboard with it.
- All 72 languages translated, including everything above.